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... it. However, this is a place where I do not want to go to prison, never to be seen again. According to Amnesty International, China holds more than 500,000 people without charge or trial, and several Tibetans go to jail for life for little reason - an NGO ...

... with all the others visited so far, this one suffered great damage during the Cultural Revolution, when monastaries all over China were destroyed as they were considered hotbeds of bourgeois thought. This monastery was distinctive for a few reasons ...

Today dawned cloudy and rainy. We've been so lucky this whole trip in getting the right weather at just the right time. I got a couple of hours work done in the morning, editing a student's first dissertation draft over a slow breakfast. Dowa (not sure ...